Tag: investing
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Good Investment Funds
I’ve said before that Stocks and Shares ISAs are a crucial item in your investment armoury, and with Plonkee’s comprehensive introduction to them, they were demystified. Now Plonkee has done it again by giving us a guide to some basic investment funds. It’s posts like this that save me hours of research. In terms of…
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The Warren Buffett Guide to Investing
In Picking Warren Buffett’s Brain: Notes from a Novice, Tim Ferriss shares the notes he took at a recent convention for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. It’s an interesting read and here’s the crux of it all: How would you invest your first million dollars? “I’d put it all in a low-cost index fund that tracks the…
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Stocks and Shares ISAs
There are a lot of very good US-based personal finance blogs around, but sometimes the information given is difficult for a UK reader to understand as the terms used are completely alien to us. One of the newer additions to my RSS reader is Plonkee Money – a site I found when searching for a…
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The ‘Easy’ Way to Intelligent Asset Allocation
NPR‘s All Things Considered recently profiled David Swensen and analysed his investing strategy (Swensen is Yale University’s head investor): Yale University recently announced a 23 percent return on its investments, swelling its endowment to a whopping $18 billion. The man behind that investment success is David Swensen, one of the most gifted investors in the…